1st Edition

Walter Benjamin:Critical Evaluations 3V Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory

Edited By Peter Osborne
1392 Pages
by Routledge

No other single author has so commanding a critical presence across so many disciplines within the arts and humanities, in so many national contexts, as Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). The belated reception of his work as a literary critic (dating from the late 1950s) has been followed by a rapid series of critical receptions in different contexts: Frankfurt Critical Theory and Marxism, Judaism, Film... Read more
Volume I: Philosophy  Part 1: Knowledge and Language  Part 2: Time and History  Part 3: Politics and Law  Volume II: Modernity  Part 1: Romanticism and Criticism  Part 2: Figures of Modernity  Part 3: Art, Technology and Cultural Form  Volume III: Appropriations  Part 1: Marxism  Part 2: Judaism  Part 3: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies  Part 4: Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives

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Edited by Peter Osborne